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Genetic Bottlenecks in Modern Beekeeping: Implications for Conservation and Sustainable Pollination

Conservation Letters, Volume 18, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Honey bees (Apis mellifera) play pivotal roles in global ecosystem functioning, underpinning agricultural productivity and biodiversity maintenance through their pollination services. Over the past century, although advances in modern beekeeping have contributed to significant enhancement in hive output, efficiency, and economic viability, the
Zheguang Lin, Yan Zhang, Kang Wang, Xiasen Jiang, Ting Ji   +4 more
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Contextual organismality: Beyond pattern to process in the emergence of organisms [PDF]

, 2016
Biologists have taken the concept of organism largely for granted. However, advances in the study of chimerism, symbiosis, bacterial-eukaryote associations, and microbial behavior have prompted a redefinition of organisms as biological entities ...
Boddy, Amy M, Bronstein, Judith L, Dantas, Gautam, Diaz-Munoz, Samuel L, Waters, Christopher M   +4 more
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Pollen exploitation by non‐native, feral honey bees: Potential consequences for interspecific competition

Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 18, Issue 6, Page 1109-1119, November 2025.
In Southern California, a global hotspot of bee biodiversity, predominantly feral populations of the exotic western honey bee constitute an estimated 90% of individual bees and 98% of bee biomass. Honey bee foragers remove 80% of total pollen during the first day flowers open on three common native species, with their first two visits removing over 60%
Dillon J. Travis, Joshua R. Kohn, David A. Holway, Keng‐Lou James Hung   +3 more
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A putative case of honeyeater‐driven sympatric speciation associated with corolla shape shift resulting in a new New Caledonian Oxera species

Journal of Systematics and Evolution, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 1299-1311, November 2025.
Investigating the morphology and ecology of two sympatric species of the Oxera (Lamiaceae) genus in New Caledonia and their respective putative pollinators showed that two species of honeyeaters are likely the preferred pollinators because of their respective sizes, bill and tongue lengths, and behavior.
Gildas Gâteblé, Ryusuke Ikeda, Giliane Karnadi‐Abdelkader, Jacqueline Ounémoa, Yoshihisa Suyama, Yuji Isagi   +5 more
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Silencing of two insulin receptor genes disrupts nymph-adult transition of alate brown citrus aphid [PDF]

, 2017
Insulin receptors play key roles in growth, development, and polymorphism in insects. Here, we report two insulin receptor genes (AcInR1 and AcInR2) from the brown citrus aphid, Aphis (Toxoptera) citricidus.
Ding, Bi-Yue, Niu, Jin-Zhi, Shang, Feng, Smagghe, Guy, Wang, Jin-Jun, Xiong, Ying, Yang, Qun, Zhang, Qiang   +7 more
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Taxonomically restricted genes are associated with the evolution of sociality in the honey bee

BMC Genomics, 2011
Background Studies have shown that taxonomically restricted genes are significant in number and important for the evolution of lineage specific traits. Social insects have gained many novel morphological and behavioral traits relative to their solitary ...
Tsutsui Neil D, Johnson Brian R
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Inter‐Caste Comparison Reveals a Unique Bioenergetic Signature in Long‐Lived Ant Queens

Molecular Ecology, Volume 34, Issue 21, November 2025.
ABSTRACT Within the same species of eusocial insects, individuals of different castes typically display widely different life‐history traits: sterile workers live for a few months, while queens can live for decades. Ageing theories emphasise the importance of metabolism and oxidative stress in explaining longevity, with mitochondrial bioenergetics ...
Maïly Kervella, Fabrice Bertile, Alexandra Granger‐Farbos, Benoît Pinson, Claire Villette, Dimitri Heintz, Alain Schmitt, Martin Quque, Frédéric Bouillaud, François Criscuolo   +9 more
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The complete mitochondrial genome of a Buckfast bee, Apis mellifera (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Northern Ireland [PDF]

, 2018
We analyzed the complete mitochondrial genome of the ‘Buckfast bee’, Apis mellifera, collected from Northern Ireland, UK. It consisted of a circular molecule of 16,353 bp.
Hill, J, Martin, SJ, Okuyama, H, Takahashi, J   +3 more
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Morphological Diversity of Moroccan Honey Bees (Apis mellifera L. 1758): Insights from a Geometric Morphometric Study of Wing Venation in Honey Bees from Different Climatic Regions

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The morphological diversity of Moroccan honey bees (Apis mellifera) was investigated using geometric morphometrics to assess wing venation patterns among three populations representing three climatic zones: desert, semiarid, and Mediterranean. A total of
Salma Bakhchou, Abdessamad Aglagane, Adam Tofilski, Fouad Mokrini, Omar Er-Rguibi, El Hassan El Mouden, Julita Machlowska, Siham Fellahi, El Hassania Mohssine   +8 more
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A virulent strain of Deformed Wing Virus (DWV) of Honeybees (Apis mellifera) prevails after Varroa destructor-mediated, or in vitro, transmission [PDF]

, 2014
This work was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Natural Environment Research Council, the Scottish Government and the Wellcome Trust, under the Insect ...
Bull, James C., Burroughs, Nigel, Chandler, Dave, Evans, David J., Fannon, Jessica M., Mead, Andrew, Moore, Jonathan D., Ryabov, Eugene V., Wood, Graham R.   +8 more
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